Senior Analytics Engineer

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Senior Analytics Engineer

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Analytics Engineer to join our centralized analytics engineering team at HawkEye 360. This team plays a critical role in enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization by building robust data models, transformations, and analytics solutions. As a senior member of the team, you will work closely with stakeholders across multiple functions, such as System Operations, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering, to deliver high-quality, scalable analytics solutions.

This role is individual contributor-focused, requiring deep technical expertise and hands-on experience with modern data engineering and analytics tools. You will help design and implement best practices for data modeling, transformation, and visualization, with a strong emphasis on Snowflake and dbt.

As the Senior Analytics Engineer , your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop and maintain dbt-based data models and transformations to support analytics and reporting needs across the organization.
• Design and optimize Snowflake data warehouse structures for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into efficient, reusable data solutions.
• Build and maintain reusable dashboards, data products, and metrics that enable stakeholders to explore and analyze data effectively.
• Apply software engineering best practices (version control, CI/CD, testing) to analytics workflows.
• Conduct deep-dive data analysis to answer complex business questions and provide actionable insights.
• Contribute to the evolution of the team's technical strategy by recommending improvements to data architecture, tooling, and processes.

Your skills and qualifications:

Essential education and experience:

• BS or MS degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or data analytics.
• Expertise in Snowflake: schema design, performance tuning, and advanced SQL.
• Proficiency with dbt and git-based workflows for data transformation and modeling.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data modeling best practices.
• Familiarity with Python and libraries such as pandas for scripting and exploratory analysis.
• Experience building effective and reusable dashboards using tools like Tableau or similar.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work closely with business stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Hands-on experience with additional databases or data stores (PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch).
• Experience with dashboarding tools such as Grafana, Kibana, or Tableau.
• Familiarity with satellite-based remote sensing and/or software-defined radio

Base Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000 annually

HawkEye 360 offers a compensation package that includes a competitive base salary plus annual performance bonus and benefits. We consider many factors when determining salary offers, such as candidate's work experience, education, training & skills, as well as market and business considerations. We are also open to considering candidates with experience and qualifications at a different level than required in a job posting, which may affect the compensation package offered.

Company Overview:

HawkEye 360 is equipping defense, intelligence, and national security leaders with mission-critical signals intelligence to enable faster, better decision making. By detecting, geolocating, and characterizing radio frequency emissions worldwide, HawkEye 360 delivers trusted domain awareness and early warning indicators to the US Government and allied partners. Our space-based collection, proprietary signal processing, and AI-powered analytics transform knowledge of RF spectrum into a strategic advantage. Proven by operational mission success, HawkEye 360 is redefining how signals intelligence strengthens national and global security.

HawkEye 360 is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

To all recruitment agencies: HawkEye 360 does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, HawkEye 360 employees or any other organization location. HawkEye 360 is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.